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The Magnus Archives: Season 2 by NOT A BOOK
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
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The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsJohn Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can......but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full scale supernatural war... -
![Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells, Kirby Heyborne]()
Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells, Kirby Heyborne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJohn and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest - but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind... -
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Live and Let Drood by Simon R. Green
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Secret Histories Novels combine “witty banter, tough guy standoffs, visceral fight scenes, bad guy atrocities, surprise revelations, and high stakes”* in supernatural adventures that can only come from the imagination of New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green.The name is Bond, Shaman Bond... -
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![Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury]()
Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother’s name in this psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades.Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer... -
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The Fisherman by John Langan
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true... -
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Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsIn this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine.A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil... -
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Shadow Beast by Luke Phillips
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWe just lost our place at the top of the food chain. Man is just meat."This was on par with Jurassic Park." Courtney L."This story has heart and soul in the midst of its rampaging terror." Bevi Debb"His hero has the potential to be one of the most loved adventure icons, in the mould of Indiana Jones." A.K...Categorized as:
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![The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron]()
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOver the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic...Categorized as:
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![The Siren and the Specter by Jonathan Janz]()
The Siren and the Specter by Jonathan Janz
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen David Caine, a celebrated skeptic of the supernatural, is invited by an old friend to spend a month in “the most haunted house in Virginia,” he believes the case will be like any other. But the Alexander House is different. Built by a 1700s land baron to contain the madness and depravity of his eldest son, the house is plagued by shadows of the past and the lingering taint of bloodshed... -
![The Boy Who Could See Demons by Carolyn Jess-Cooke]()
The Boy Who Could See Demons by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsI first met my demon the morning that Mum said Dad had gone. Alex Connolly is ten years old, likes onions on toast, and can balance on the back legs of his chair for fourteen minutes. His best friend is a 9000-year-old demon called Ruen. When his depressive mother attempts suicide yet again, Alex meets child psychiatrist Anya... -
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Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman’s arms is a baby, stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda — and he begins to move...Categorized as:
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![Bonechiller by Graham McNamee]()
Bonechiller by Graham McNamee
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWELCOME TO NOWHERE.Danny's dad takes a job as caretaker at a marina on the shore of a vast, frozen lake in Harvest Cove, a tiny town tucked away in Canada's Big Empty. If you're looking for somewhere to hide, this is it.It's the worst winter in years. One night, running in the dark, Danny is attacked by a creature so strange and terrifying he tries to convince himself he was hallucinating... -
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Darker Things by Rob Cornell
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCraig Lockman—no one had called him that in fifteen years.Not since his days at the Agency. Not since he was trained to kill creatures that were supposed to exist only in nightmares.Yet the teenage girl on his doorstep not only knows his real name, she claims she's his daughter.Before Lockman can learn how the girl found him, he's attacked by a black-ops team of assassins... -
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![The Croning by Laird Barron]()
The Croning by Laird Barron
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsStrange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults, and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us... -
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Cold Skin by Albert Sánchez Piñol
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a "weather official" on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse...Categorized as:
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![Seed by Ania Ahlborn]()
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFans of Stephen King, Jack Kilborn, and Blake Crouch… prepare to meet the Devil.In the vine-twisted swamps of Louisiana, the shadows have teeth.Jack Winter has spent his entire life running from something no one else can see. His childhood is his darkest secret, but after a near fatal accident along a deserted road, the darkness he was sure he’d escaped rears its ugly head… and smiles... -
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Little Girls by Ronald Malfi
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom Bram Stoker Award nominee Ronald Malfi comes a brilliantly chilling novel of childhood revisited, memories resurrected, and fears reborn…When Laurie was a little girl, she was forbidden to enter the room at the top of the stairs. It was one of many rules imposed by her cold, distant father. Now, in a final act of desperation, her father has exorcised his demons... -
![The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue]()
The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boy trapped inside his own world, whose drawings blur the lines between fantasy and reality.Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, ten-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors...Categorized as:
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![The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle]()
The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Publishers WeeklyNew Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one...Categorized as:
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The Vines by Christopher Rice
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe dark history of Spring House, a beautifully restored plantation mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, has long been forgotten. But something sinister lurks beneath the soil of the old estate.After heiress and current owner Caitlin Chaisson is witness to her husband’s stunning betrayal at her birthday party, she tries to take her own life in the mansion’s cherished gazebo... -
![Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé]()
Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of sisterhood turned toxic, imaginary monsters brought to life, and secrets that won't stay buried. Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. And moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over as someone different... -
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Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsSomeday I'll wake up and they will have built a maze around me. And I will be relieved. Sixteen-year-old Maren wants the same thing every girl her age wants. She wants to be loved. She wants to be accepted. She wants to be normal. But she'll never be any of those things. For Maren has dark urges. There is a hunger inside her she can't control and no one is safe, not even the people she loves...Categorized as:
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![An English Ghost Story by Kim Newman, Emma Fenney]()
An English Ghost Story by Kim Newman, Emma Fenney
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA dysfunctional British nuclear family seeks a new life away from the big city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their new home, The Hollow, seems to embrace them, creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But when the house turns on them, it seems to know just how to hurt them the most threatening to destroy them from the inside out... -
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![Ghost Radio: A Novel by Leopoldo Gout]()
Ghost Radio: A Novel by Leopoldo Gout
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this chilling first novel by filmmaker, composer, and graphic novelist Leopoldo Gout, a ghost story call-in program opens a doorway into the paranormal.“Ghost Radio reminded me of early Stephen King. The story sticks with you long after you’ve finished the final page.” —James PattersonFrom the cramped bowels of a dimly lit radio station, Ghost Radio is beamed onto the airwaves... -
![The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay]()
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins, from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend?Art Barbara was so not cool... -
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In Bloom by Paul Tremblay
Rated: 3.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThere’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Beast You Are. Journalist Heidi Cohen is in Cape Cod investigating the sources of recurring toxic algae blooms along the coast. A local named Jimmy has his own theory for her... -
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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1 by Sui Ishida
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsShy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body—eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own... -
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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 7 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsGhouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way-except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers... -
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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 2 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsUnable to discard his humanity but equally unable to suppress his Ghoul hunger, Ken finds salvation in the kindness of friendly Ghouls who teach him how to pass as human and eat flesh humanely. But recent upheavals in Ghoul society attract the police like wolves to prey, and they don’t discriminate between conscientious and monstrous Ghouls...
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